Just took in Miao Mei's gang and divided them into two temporary squads. Suddenly, a scout ran over and reported loudly: "Brother Zhu...... Officers and soldiers appeared ten miles away in the west! ”

"Huh? Is it an officer and soldier? Isn't it Li Panlong's retreating township brave army? Zhu Yuanzhang asked in an accentuated tone.

"It's officers and soldiers, not Li Panlong's department!" The scout reported earnestly: "The number of people is about eight hundred, and the flag with the word 'Du' should be Du Wenhuan, the chief soldier." ”

"Huh? Why is Du Wenhuan here? Xu Renjie couldn't help but ask.

"Needless to say...... Wang Zuohang obediently surrendered, Du Wenhuan should have left two hundred people to deal with him, and then led a large team of men to kill Miao Mei and his gang. Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "There is also a possibility that the officers and soldiers already know that I am coming, so they want to clean me up." ”

Don't look at the desolation caused by the drought, as if marching in a no-man's land, in fact, in the invisible places in the four fields, I don't know how many villagers hid to watch Zhu Yuanzhang's army pass by. It is impossible for this kind of army of more than 1,000 people to avoid the march of the common people, and there will always be some villagers who see the army from a distance and pass on the news. Du Wenhuan knew that Zhu Yuanzhang's army was coming to Luochuan, it was not surprising, what was surprising was that he came very quickly, and he actually drove Li Panlong to leave on the front foot, and he arrived on the back foot.

"This Du Wenhuan is good! Judging from the fact that he threw away Wang Zuo and ignored it and came directly after us, he should be a relatively good general, participated in a lot of battles, and has considerable combat experience. Zhu Yuanzhang commented lightly.

"Why do you judge that?" Xu Renjie hurriedly asked for advice, wanting to learn some knowledge from it.

Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "First, Du Wenhuan has already made a great contribution after receiving Wang Zuohang's beggar surrender, which can be regarded as smoothing out a rogue of 10,000 people, and he will definitely be rewarded when he goes back." But this person is not satisfied, he still wants to make more contributions, from this point it can be seen that this person is very enterprising. ”

"Second, Wang Zuohang** thousands of people surrendered, ordinary generals must feel that so many people must deal with it well, so as not to surrender and rebel, but Du Wenhuan had the courage to throw Wang Zuohang away, he must have seen it, Wang Zuohang is not to worry at all, and it will not make a name for himself if he throws it behind, but it is Miao Mei who escaped and our army who came from afar who are more threatening, so he rushed over with such a fast speed."

"Third, in the general environment of the imperial court [***], the combat effectiveness of the guards is generally low, and he can move so fast with the guards, it is indeed a certain level."

"I see!" Xu Renjie laughed twice and said: "Brother Zhu, since he is coming, let's fight with him, and ambush Du Wenhuan again by ambushing Li Panlong's woods." ”

"No way!" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "Do you think that regular officers and soldiers and military generals of the imperial court will lead troops to be ambushed so easily?" Inevitably, they underestimate the officers and soldiers! Officers and soldiers also have scouts, if you hide in this kind of forest to ambush the enemy, the enemy is five miles away, you can count the number of trees growing in this forest through the scouts......"

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang paused and said, "If Du Wenhuan really has considerable combat experience as I judged, our scouts will soon have bad news coming back." ”

"What's the news?" Xu Renjie is surprised.

"Blockade scout......" Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously.

"Blockade scouts? What do you mean? Xu Renjie didn't understand it at all.

"What do you think a general should do when he finds out that his army is being watched by enemy scouts?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked Yan seriously.

"It's not easy, of course, it's to send your own scouts to drive away the enemy scouts, so that the enemy doesn't keep an eye on you, so what kind of battle!" After Xu Renjie finished speaking, he suddenly realized: "I understand, you mean that Du Wenhuan is about to drive away our scouts." ”

"That's right! That's what we're going to do now! Zhu Yuanzhang jumped on a stone, his eyes swept around, and sure enough, several figures in the distance in the east flashed at the end of his sight, and then disappeared...... That's a scout of officers and soldiers!

In fact, this is not surprising at all, since the scouts on the other side have spotted the enemy army, the enemy scouts have naturally followed him, and if he does not see any scouts around, it is a strange thing.

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered loudly: "The scouts who stayed in the army and stood by were all dispersed!" Form a scout network to drive enemy scouts out of sight. ”

"Obey?" A group of scouts who were not sent out jumped up, and before they heard Zhu Yuanzhang's order, they didn't know that they had been targeted by enemy scouts, and these brothers shouted together: "Which blind Wang Ba dares to use scouts to spy on us?" We scouts aren't for dry meals. ”

While cursing, they scattered in three directions, east, northeast, and southeast, and the scouts spread a huge net, which at once spread out a mile or two away. Their action of opening a big net frightened several figures in the four fields to run out and flee far away.

This act is also known as blocking scouts! By spreading all the scouts on the side, the position of the Chinese army is formed into a vacuum that the enemy cannot detect, and the enemy scouts cannot directly see what the main force of the Chinese army is doing, they can only see the scouts who come to chase them, that is, the scouts and scouts deal with each other.

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head to Xu Renjie and said, "Understood, right?" Now Du Wenhuan should be doing the same thing as me, spreading a large number of scouts to drive away the enemy scouts. This is true not only when the infantry legion is fighting, but also when the cavalry legion is fighting on the steppe, and the scouts will ride their horses and rotate around their army at a fast speed, on the one hand, to ensure that the enemy troops close to their side can be detected, and on the other hand, they can also keep the enemy scouts out of their own reconnaissance network...... If two armies collide, the first thing to do is the scout squad. They will do everything they can to kill the eyes and ears of the enemy while ensuring their own safety. But scouts are not easy to kill, because the scouts of any army are elite soldiers with fast feet and flexible brains. ”

Xu Renjie opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything, these things are not recorded in the military book! The war book will only record that tens of thousands of troops and tens of thousands of troops fought in a certain place, but it will not be recorded that before the big war, the scouts of the two armies have already had a fierce offensive and defensive battle.

After Zhu Yuanzhang dispersed the scouts, he confirmed that the enemy scouts couldn't see what they were doing, and hurriedly ordered: "The whole army should rise up and withdraw to the cottage as soon as possible!" ”

"Yes!"

The soldiers began to pack up the big iron pot that was set up, and put the grain bag back on their backs, Zhu Yuanzhang's army has been trained for several years, and now the movements when the camp is pulled out have been very clean, what should each soldier do, how long should he finish it, and where to return to the team after doing it, there have been many trainings, so the whole team is not chaotic at all.

The news that the officers and soldiers were already ten miles away did not make their movements flustered, nor did it cause much emotional turmoil among the soldiers, who went about their business as if they had not heard about it.

Miao Mei and the group wanted to help with the handle, but they soon found that they were clumsy in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers without training, and they couldn't help at all.

It didn't take long for the soldiers to pack their bags, set up a long snake formation for the army, and began to move in the direction of Huanglong Mountain in the west.

The news of the scouts kept coming back, and Du Wenhuan really dispersed the scout net, and the scouts of the two armies drove the scouts of the other side out, so the reconnaissance range of the two armies began to squeeze each other, just like two round balls squeezing in the middle, both balls were flattened, and each other's reconnaissance range was forced to shrink by half......

However, this does not affect the judgment of the scouts, although they can no longer directly see the enemy's main force, and can only deal with the enemy's scouts, but only need to infer from the direction of the enemy's scout nets, they can roughly guess where the enemy's main force is.

Xu Renjie walked and asked Zhu Yuanzhang: "Brother Zhu, in this way, wouldn't it be impossible for the two armies to fight at all?" Everyone's scouts are watching each other like this, what kind of ambush and other art of war has become a joke? ”

"That's right!" Zhu Yuanzhang said very seriously: "Since ancient times, the war between the two countries has been based on the fight of upright divisions on the plains, and they use tactics...... There must be a specific environment, the right time, the right place, and the right people, all of which are indispensable, and not every battle can be won by trickery. ”

"Then "Thirty-six Strategies" is all?" Xu Renjie said with a bitter face: "That's my favorite military book!" ”

"The thirty-six strategies are not completely useless, as I just said, as long as there is the right time, place and people, you can use ......the strategy" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly smiled slightly and said: "Carefully consider the situation of the enemy and us, the terrain of Zhou, and the situation faced by the two armies, you can come up with a useful strategy." ”

Xu Renjie said with a bitter face: "I don't believe it, so many scouts are staring at it, what else is the right time, place and people available." ”

"Hehe, in fact, we have a certain amount of time and place now, and we have a strategy to use." Zhu Yuanzhang said suddenly.

"What?" Xu Renjie was surprised: "What plan is available?" Can you ambush the plan of the officers and soldiers? ”

"It's not!" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "In the current situation, the ambush plan is absolutely impossible, but ...... The golden cicada's plan to get out of its shell can be used! I'm going to teach you a little trick to make us disappear without a trace under the noses of the enemy scouts. ”